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Title: Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Eliot, Samuel A. (Samuel Atkins), 1862-1950
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Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Massachusetts Biographical Society
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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bservation somesuggestions to young Americans as to the principles which hebelieves will contribute most to the strengthening of sound idealsin our American life, Mr. Weyburn has chosen to emphasize thefollowing: Self-reliance, a true appreciation of the value of money,recreation in the open and insistence upon the doing promptly ofthose necessary things in which there may be a tendency toprocrastinate. On the first day of February, 1916, was solemnized in EmmanuelChurch, Boston, the marriage of Lyon Weyburn and Ruth Anthony,the daughter of S. Reed and Harriet (Weeks) Anthony (Vol. 6this work), granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew G. Weeks(Vol. 6 this work), and of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Anthony (ClaraReed). Mr. and Mrs. Weyburn have one son named for his grand-father, Reed Anthony. The fife and work of Mr. Weyburn is highly successful andhonorable. He is a citizen whose exemplary bearing and conductin all the relations of life make him a uniformly useful and efficientinfluence for good.
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NELSON DAVIS WHITE THE branch of the White family from whom Nelson DavisWhite descended has been traced by Mr. J. N. White inhis admirable privately printed autobiographical sketchthrough well authenticated names back to 1303. It is interestingto note that some of the family more than five hundred years agowere slay makers, thus connected with the manufacture of cloth,the business that has been followed with remarkable success by themembers of the White family in America. In the old countrythe Whites lived under the shadow of old York Cathedral, freemenand land holders in Yorkshire. Thomas White, born January 28,1636, in Yorkshire, England, was the emigrant to the new world in1660. He was a freeman in Charlestown in 1666 and served inCaptain Sylls company in King Philips War. The Whites were men of action, and leading citizens in the com-munities in which they dwelt. Nelson Davis Whites grandfatherwas Thomas White, born in Spencer, Massachusetts, November24, 1757. He was a soldier in

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